The secret to Kim’s success? Some experts see Russian echoes in North Korea’s missile advances

The Washington Compost ^ | July 8, 2017 | Joby Warrick

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Four months before its July 4 missile test, North Korea offered the world a rare technical preview of its latest missile engine, one said to be capable of lobbing nuclear warheads at U.S. cities. A video on state-run TV depicted a machine with thickets of tubes and vents, and a shape that struck some U.S. experts as familiar — in a distinctly Soviet way.

“It shocked me,” said Michael Elleman, one weapons expert who noticed jarring similarities between the engine tested by North Korea in March and one he frequently encountered in Russia at the end of the Cold War. “It seemed to come out of nowhere.”

After intensive study, Elleman, a former consultant at the Pentagon, and other specialists would report that they had detected multiple design features in the new North Korean missile engine that echo those of a 1960s-era Soviet workhorse called the RD-250.

There is no record of Pyongyang’s obtaining blueprints for the Russian missile engine, and experts disagree on whether it ever did so. But the discovery of similarities has focused new attention on a question that has dogged U.S. analysts for at least the past two years: How has North Korea managed to make surprisingly rapid gains in its missile program, despite economic sanctions and a near-universal ban on exports of military technology to the impoverished communist state?

[Texas Eagle]

Kim's success??? For reals, Compost?

The only person who has been more propped up than Kim Jung Il is Hitlery Rosenberg Abedin-Clinton.

[2ndDivisionVet]

No, it’s all home-grown in cottage workshops heated by ondol.

[UCANSEE2]

"The Albanians have the "bomb", it's a suitcase nuke, and it's in .... Canada."

[gaijin]

Sounds like more politicized intelligence by the loyal retainers of The Establishment.

This attempt is so transparent it’s crazy.

[gaijin]

Did you ever imagine way back when that there would someday be a time that *NOT* nuking Russia would be described as an act of irresponsibility..?

Well, welcome to that time and, it’s totally ridiculous.

[TheTimeOfMan]

What is wrong with leftists. They used to be fools but mostly well intentioned ones. Now they are just demented. They are seriously mentally sick.

[DoodleBob]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like more politicized intelligence by the loyal retainers of The Establishment. This attempt is so transparent it’s crazy.

Now that you pointed it out, it is transparently obvious.

[Malcolm Reynolds]

Their cooperation with Iran is well known.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

It’s Captain Obvious time, again. No. Korea gets its help from Red China, Pakistan, and Russia. PERIOD.

This is just like the arming and directing of Kim Il Sung’s invasion of So. Korea in June 1950. Not only were Soviet fingerprints all over it, but so were Soviet planners, advisors and pilots, among others.

There was a major LIFE magazine article between 1959 and 1961 by former Polish Col. Monat Pavel (spelling might be off) about the role of Soviet advisors and Soviet bloc personnel directing the invasion.

Korean War joke: re Soviet pilots flying No. Korean MIGS (made in the Soviet Union, etc).

“The North Koreans have the best pilots in the world. They can fly without using their hands (because they are using them to make their eyes look like they are slanted).”

The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Committee, had a report entitled “The Korean War and Related Matters”, Jan. 21, 1955 which is interesting.

Old Chinese saying: “Reds of a feather flock together” - It is called “Socialist solidarity” and it has never stopped.

[piasa]

And Syria... there were Nork techs at that Syrian nuke lab the Israelis bombed

[wastoute]

One has to wonder. Similar in a way most cars have four wheels? Or similar in a way that all Mercedes have the same hood ornament? Nowadays, if it’s in the news everything is so agenda driven the first question one has to ask is why is this “news”?

[Yosemitest]

You left out the United States of America, under William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, and his changing the authorization to sell missile and rocket technology to China, by making it come under the "Commerce Department" instead of the "Department of Defense".

Betrayal : How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security


Lest We Forget Chinagate, The Most Serious Scandal in US History

Loral Agrees to Pay U.S. $14 Million

Also read:

RUSH: MY CONVERSATION WITH REP.CHISTOPHER COX ( A repost of 08/28/2000 ~~ NK discussed)

MAY 11, 1999, Bill Clinton gave the Chinese permission to launch our satellites.
Don't you remember Loran ?

And Bill Clinton also gave China the computer technology to forecast high altitude weather, critical to launching missiles/rockets, and then China was finally able to get their second stage rockets to work.

U.S. agrees to sell supercomputer to China, officials say Administration aims to embrace, not isolate, Beijing

So you can personally thank William Jefferson Blythe Clinton for giving China, Pakistan, and North Korea, the ability to get a multi-stage rocket off the ground and the ability to control the satellite/NUCLEAR WARHEAD once launched.
Also along with that was the ability to CONTROL OUR satellites.

[wastoute]

Technology went out, cash to the CLintons rolled in. Not conjecture. Yet no one was ever prosecuted.

[Yosemitest]

There should be NO statute of limitations on crimes of TREASON.
The Clintons, both Bill and Hillary, are certainly guilty, and should be prosecuted ... and PUNISHED ... to the maximum extent of the law.

[MCF]

North Korea has been building rockets for over 30 years. The fact that they finally have an ICBM should surprise no one.

[Ray76]

> Technology went out, cash to the CLintons rolled in.

Bill Clinton provided rockets.

Hillary Clinton provided uranium.

The Clintons are the greatest traitors in history.

[Squantos]

Yep ..... Iran.

[PIF]

Again: treason can only be brought if there is a formally declared enemy, else it is merely treasonous. China was not and still is not a declared enemy, thus charges cannot be brought, despite the mountain of evidence the Senate refused to look at.